Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on US Congressmen to resist the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in order to "get a better deal" Al-Quds newspaper reported on Sunday. Speaking to American news network ABC, Netanyahu addressed US lawmakers, urging them not to "approve this bad deal... Resist in order to get a better deal." Netanyahu is giving numerous interviews with American TV stations with the aim of inciting Americans against the deal. The US State Department sent the deal to Congress on Sunday. Lawmakers will have 60 days to review it and vote either for or against. US President Barack Obama has pledged to veto any potential Congress disapproval, meaning that only a two-thirds majority can prevent the deal going ahead. Until a decision is made by Congress, Obama cannot ease the sanctions imposed on Tehran, part of the pledge agreed in the JCPOA. The JCPOA, Netanyahu believes, does not prevent Iran from owning a nuclear bomb, but rather delays the possibility of the Iranians acquiring one. He believes that the deal, which lifts economic sanctions on Iran, would give Iran the chance to receive billions of dollars of funding and support that would enable it to produce the bomb (although this would be in direct violation of the deal and would cause the sanctions to immediately snap back in place). Netanyahu says that he is obliged to speak frankly to mass media about the dangers facing the region and the world and that Israel would never feel safe if this deal was put in place. Speaking to ABC, he said: "There was much talk about compensating Israel... If this deal is supposed to make Israel and our Arab neighbours safer, why should we be compensated with anything?" He also added: "How can you compensate a country, my country, against a terrorist regime that is sworn to our destruction and is going to get a path to nuclear bombs and billions of dollars to boot for its terror activities against us?" US Secretary of State John Kerry has defended the deal, telling CNN that if the US withdrawn from the JCPOA, they would never be allowed access to inspect Iranian nuclear plants. "The greatest fear regarding this region is that when there is no deal in this regard," he said. Ironically, despite Netanyahu's protestations regarding Iran's alleged (and as yet un-proved) moves towards nuclear armament, Israel itself is one of only a handful of countries who have refused to sign up to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and has an estimated 200 operational nuclear warheads. Israel also refuses inspection from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

A series of experiments have been conducted by Israel to examine the effects of and damage caused by so-called "dirty" bombs, a combination of conventional explosive and radioactive materials. The tests were part of the "Green Field" project over the past four years at the nuclear reactor in Dimona. The project supervisors insisted that the objectives were defensive rather than offensive. According to Haaretz, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in the USA concerns grew about the possibility of terrorist gaining access to "dirty" bombs, as threatened by Al-Qaeda at the time. Such threats have not materialised. Israel, however, has been conducting the tests to see what might happen in the event that such a weapon is used. In 2006, the Israeli Ministry of Health issued instructions about the treatment necessary if dirty bombs were deployed against targets in the country. The experiments started in Dimona in 2010 and ended last year; their findings were published in scientific circles. Twenty bombs weighing between a quarter kilogram and 25 kilogram mixed with "Technetium-99m", which is used in the pharmaceutical industry, were built for the programme of tests. It was discovered that there was a very high rate of radiation in the centre of the explosion as well as small amounts dispersed by the wind in the surrounding areas. However, the conclusion from the research suggests that the fundamental danger associated with such bombs compared with "regular" munitions is connected more with the psychological impact on the public.

Series of tests in conjunction with four-year project at Dimona nuclear reactor measured damage and other implications of detonation of radiological weapon by hostile forces.

Israel recently carried out a series of tests in the desert in conjunction with a four-year project at the Dimona nuclear reactor to measure the damage and other implications of the detonation of a so-called “dirty” radiological bomb by hostile forces. Such a bomb uses conventional explosives in addition to radioactive material. Most of the detonations were carried out in the desert and one was performed at a closed facility. The research concluded that high-level radiation was measured at the center of the explosions, with a low level of dispersal of radiation by particles carried by the wind. Sources at the reactor said this doesn’t pose a substantial danger beyond the psychological effect. An additional concern stems from a radiological explosion in a closed space, which would then require that the area be closed off for an extended period until the effects of the radiation are eliminated. In 2010, staff from the Dimona nuclear reactor began a series of tests, dubbed the “Green Field” project, designed to measure the consequences of the detonation of a dirty bomb in Israel. The project was concluded in 2014, and its research findings have been presented at scientific gatherings and on nuclear science databases. The researchers explained that the experiments were for defensive purposes and that they were not giving consideration to offensive aspects of the tests. Public concern over radiological terrorism began after the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001 and the threat by representatives of Al-Qaida to use such weaponry against the United States. The radioactive material is available to the medical and industrial sectors, and those who threaten its use as a weapon aim to augment the damage and fear caused by an explosion by adding the threat of radiation to the mix. No such device has ever been deployed by terrorists, but officials in Israel have prepared for such an eventuality. In 2006, the Health Ministry issued procedures on how to deal with such an event. The website of the Israel Defense Force’s Home Front Command also features an explanation on how to proceed if such an event were to occur.

Above: Explosion of a radioactive device and use of mini-drones to check radiation. Below: Testing of radioactive materials in a mock shopping mall.

In 2013, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon issued a warning at a meeting in Canada in which he said the Iranians were interested in advancing the commission of terrorist activity, including use of a dirty bomb, against various Western targets under the nuclear umbrella that they were seeking to acquire, and the world should not show tolerance toward the prospect of a nuclear Iran. In the course of the experiments, 20 detonations were carried out involving between 250 grams and 25 kilograms of explosives together with the common radioactive substance known as 99mTc, which is used in the health care field for medical imaging. The experiments made use of the reactor’s most innovative technology, including tiny drones used to measure radiation and sensors to measure the force of the blast. In the course of the project, there was an additional test known as “Red House,” designed to examine another kind of radiological scenario in which a substance would be left in a crowded public space but not exploded. In the experiment, which was conducted together with the Home Front Command, six tests were made using material mixed with water in the ventilation system of a two-story building on a Home Front Command base, simulating a shopping mall. The result of the research was that such an approach is not effective from the terrorists’ perspective, and that most of the radiation remained on the air conditioning filters.

By now, every VT reader will be aware that Israel dropped a neutron bomb on Yemen on behalf of their Saudi allies. As well as the readers of VT, a billion Arabs also know this truth, every Arabic media outlet picked up the VT story as have the Russian outlets Pravda, Russia Today and Sputnik News. This story is too big to die, it is worldwide. Israel nuked Yemen, period. This is hard fact that has been 100% confirmed.

Just watch the video, the scintillating pixels are caused by particles from the nuclear explosion hitting the camera’s sensor, there can be no other explanation; note the white hot ball of plasma seen briefly before the huge detonation.The camera never lies

Until mobile phones with cameras and small video cameras were developed, small florescent lights were used as emergency nuclear explosion/radiation detectors. Now, phones and CCD video cameras have become dependable “slam dunk” nuclear detectors. The next few words are the technical explanation of why we are absolutely certain we are dealing with a nuclear event, with no questions whatsoever. This is information available to all member of the press, the military, the scientific community and the general public. This means, of course, that anyone in “denial” of our assertion, proven with this much certainty, is defective as to mental function or suffers from moral degeneracy.The combination of the cameras plastic lens and the photoelectric effect produced in the cameras CCD pick up chip (because it is basically a very large array of photo diodes) allows them to act as very good detectors of high level ionizing radiation. Low level radiation in this case is not of concern because it will not immediately kill you or have long term negative health effects.

By simply pointing the camera at an explosive event it will immediately determine if it is nuclear or not. When the camera’s CCD pick up chip is overloaded by excess radiation it will pixelize showing white sparkles all over the picture of the fireball or blast image area.The demonstration video still was taken in Yemen this month. It is perhaps the best single demonstration image of ionizing radiation hitting a CCD receptor. It is as perfect a demonstration of a nuclear explosion as detected using mobile phone or CCD camera technology, as explained above, as might be possible. We are contacting scientists and physicists throughout the Middle east and Ukraine; we are distributing software that will allow us to detect not just nuclear weapons but radioactive threats of all kinds including polonium poisons; we are training teams to collect soil samples; preparing packages to allow medical personnel to screen for radioactive poisoning and we are offering materials for civil defence and decontamination efforts. There has thus far been zero denial or refutation (other than by wingnuts and conspiracy theorists) of this having been a nuclear event nor has there been any effective denial of the pair of F-16A/Bs shot down over Yemen this week; planes which can only have belonged to Italy, Portugal or Israel, otherwise it came out of the mothballed stockpiles in the US southwest.Russia speaks out

As stated in Pravda today, the world’s scientific community is aghast that ‘the Saudis have begun to wipe Yemen off the map’, they get straight to the point by telling us that ‘shocking video reveals proton bombardment from a neutron bomb’ and that ‘forbidden strikes have brought about a storm of worldwide protest’ and might I add, this wave of protest isn’t going to be silenced by a handful of internet trolls and unemployed Haifa housewives.‘Obama has recently offered military assistance to any external threat the rich Arab Gulf States may face’ according to Pravda. Russia is not only certain after viewing the evidence, that this is a nuclear attack but they believe that the United States is fully complicit in it; where other sources have cited the Israeli-Saudi nexus, highest level Russian sources believe this irresponsible move is the result of Washington kow-towing to both Saudi Arabia and The Gulf States.Here come the trolls

There is a truism that one catches the most flak when one is over the target; being attacked by shills, stooges, trolls and other assorted disinfo entities is always a good indicator that one has written something that exposes a truth that the bad guys really don’t want people finding out about. We know that our article exposing the Israeli use of a neuron bomb in Yemen has upset the applecart in Tel-Aviv and elsewhere because we are seeing a slew of videos and posts appearing online attacking VT and ridiculing the Yemeni nuke story.

One video I found particularly objectionable was posted by one of David Icke’s sycophantic supporters; a loud-mouthed, obnoxious type who looks like a third Milliband brother shouts at us that Yemen wasn’t nuked, that neutron bombs don’t exist and warns that VT is a disinfo op. Oh, and just to make sure you know who he is working for, he gets in three or four ‘fuck Israel’ outbursts. David Icke personally, has run the other way to get as far away from this nuke issue as he can; while at the same time tasking his pack of attack trolls with attacking VT and the existence of neutron bombs – further confirmation of his disinfo agent status and a clear indicator of who he works for, what agenda he is trying to further. The fact that Icke is tasked with specific assignments such as covering up the nuking of Yemen shows us that he is an active agent.

Personally, I never had any doubt that Icke was a disinfo scumbag, I remember all too well the days in the early 90s when he appeared on the Terry Wogan chat show claiming to be the son of God and wearing a turquoise shellsuit because that colour held some mystical power. Icke has always been full of it and working against the best interests of mankind.You just outed yourself David, you have made it plain for all to see that you are nothing more than a foetid outlet for the lies and disinfo of Israel. We knew this all along of course, but now we have confirmation. What we have to ask ourselves though is why have they chosen to employ David Icke on this issue, rather strange because the timing makes it very clear that Icke is taking the grubby Shekel to do the bidding of Israel. This has the effect of ‘burning’ him as an asset – after this his credibility is gone, he is no longer an asset, just a spent, discredited force. But why burn one of your best assets?The answer is both simple and gratifying – VT’s breaking of the Yemeni nuke story has done real damage, we hit the mark and drew blood; they have responded by turning one of their major assets against us with full knowledge this will burn the asset; this shows just how much they want to keep this nuclear warfare a secret. Thank you so much, you just handed us a gift from heaven; proof positive that Israel really doesn’t want people to know they nuked Yemen; hence they have unleashed their moronic hordes of stooges, shills, trolls, whatever name you prefer to use for these lying pieces of faecal matter in human form; these disgusting, completely amoral creatures who gladly take the Shekel as reward for their attempts to run cover for the mass murder of innocent people and the use of horrific weapons of mass destruction to commit war crimes.It is too late to put the cat back in the box, the word is out – Israel is using nukes to kill innocent civilians. Where are the other big names in the so-called ‘truth movement’? Where are Alex Jones and Christopher Bollyn? They are certainly nowhere near this oh so important nuke issue and you can bet your last cent they won’t be going near it unless it is to spread disinfo and tell outright lies. Note that all these nay-sayers have no credentials other than being pro-Israeli or suspiciously aligned to groups such as the ADL, SPLC or AIPAC which are nothing more than fronts for Israeli interests. Take note of the reaction to this very serious issue of the Israeli use of nukes. Anyone who tries to claim there was no nuke dropped on Yemen or apply a derogatory label to those who seek to get the truth about this most heinous of war crimes out to a wide audience must be viewed as a stooge for Israel. The worldwide spread of the true story of Israel’s nuking of Yemen has got the perpetrators very worried; the truth is one of the things these people fear most.Appendix IAscintillatoris a material that exhibitsscintillation— the property ofluminescence when excited byionizing radiation. Luminescent materials, when struck by an incoming particle, absorb its energy and scintillate, (i.e., re-emit the absorbed energy in the form of light). Sometimes, the excited state ismetastable, so the relaxation back down from the excited state to lower states is delayed (necessitating anywhere from a few nanoseconds to hours depending on the material): the process then corresponds to either one of two phenomena, depending on the type of transition and hence the wavelength of the emitted optical photon: delayedfluorescenceorphosphorescence, also called after-glow.

A scintillation detector orscintillation counteris obtained when a scintillator is coupled to an electronic light sensor such as aphotomultiplier tube(PMT), photo-diode, orsilicon photomultiplier. PMT’s absorb the light emitted by the scintillator and re-emit it in the form of electrons via thephotoelectric effect. The subsequent multiplication of those electrons (sometimes called photo-electrons) results in an electrical pulse which can then be analyzed and yield meaningful information about the particle that originally struck the scintillator. Vacuum photo-diodes are similar but do not amplify the signal while silicon photo-diodes, (CCD cameras) on the other hand, detect incoming photons by the excitation of charge carriers directly in the silicon. Silicon photo-multipliers consist of an array of photo-diodes which are reverse-biased with sufficient voltage to operate inavalanche mode, enabling each pixel of the array to be sensitive to single photons.History

The first device which used a scintillator was built in 1903 by SirWilliam Crookesand used aZnSscreen.The scintillations produced by the screen were visible to the naked eye if viewed by a microscope in a darkened room; the device was known as aspinthariscope. The technique led to a number of important discoveries. Scintillators gained additional attention in 1944, whenCurranand Baker replaced the naked eye measurement with the newly developedPMT. This was the birth of the modern scintillation detector.Applications for scintillators

Scintillators are used by the American government as Homeland Security radiation detectors. Scintillators can also be used in neutron and high energy particle physics experiments, X-ray security, nuclear cameras, computed tomography and gas exploration. Other applications of scintillators include CT scanners and gamma cameras in medical diagnostics, and screens in older style CRT computer monitors and television sets. The use of a scintillator in conjunction with a photomultiplier tube or a CCD camera finds wide use inhand-held survey metersused for detecting and measuringradioactive contaminationand monitoring nuclear material. Scintillators generate light in fluorescent tubes, to convert the ultra-violet of the discharge into visible light. Scintillation detectors are also used in the petroleum industry as detectors for Gamma Ray logs. ( Note small compact fluorescent light bulbs can also be used in an emergency to detect radiation bursts from a nuclear event. They will flash or glow under radiation exposure).Plastic scintillators and the CCD camera, cell phone connection.

Plastic scintillators are the most common type of radiation detectors found in everyday CCD video cameras, cell phone cameras and home security cameras. With little or no modification at all they can be used as simple radiation detectors for emergency self protection from nuclear blasts and high background radiation levels or to document nuclear detonations. The combination of the cameras plastic lens and the photoelectric effect produced in the cameras CCD pick up chip (because it is basically a very large array of photo didoes) allows them to act as very good detectors of high level ionizing radiation. Low level radiation in this case is not of concern because it will not immediately kill you or have long term negative health effects. By simply pointing the camera at an explosive event it will immediately determine if it is nuclear or not.

When the cameras CCD pick up chip is overloaded by excess radiation it will pixelize showing white sparkles all over the picture of the fireball or blast image area. If you are looking to protect yourself from high level ionizing radiation produced by depleted uranium anti tank rounds or after a nuclear blast this will work. For lower level radiation effects usually just putting black electrical tape over the cameras lens is sufficient enough to detect lower radiation levels. Once the background radiation level has drooped off after an explosion. Usually after about 3 hours or more excluding ground zero where levels will remain higher for a longer period of time the CCD cameras may not be sensitive enough to detect these lower levels of radiation and a better detector will be required. However for emergency use this this process altho crude will work. If you have an Android or Apple smart phone there are several APPS that will allow you to use your phone as a simple radiation detector/ Geiger counter. Some work better than others and several are actually fake or toy apps so user be ware make sure the APP really works.Types of scintillators

Plastic scintillators

The term “plastic scintillator” typically refers to a scintillating material in which the primary fluorescent emitter, called a fluor, is suspended in the base, a solid polymer matrix. While this combination is typically accomplished through the dissolution of the fluor prior to bulk polymerization, the fluor is sometimes associated with the polymer directly, either covalently or through coordination, as is the case with many Li6 plastic scintillators. Polyethylene naphthalatehas been found to exhibit scintillation by itself without any additives and is expected to replace existing plastic scintillators due to higher performance and lower price. The advantages of plastic scintillators include fairly high light output and a relatively quick signal, with a decay time of 2–4 nanoseconds, but perhaps the biggest advantage of plastic scintillators is their ability to be shaped, through the use of molds or other means, into almost any desired form with what is often a high degree of durability. Plastic scintillators are known to show light output saturation when the energy density is large ( Birks’ Law).Bases

The most common bases are the aromatic plastics, polymers with aromatic rings as pendant groups along the polymer backbone, amongst which polyvinyltoluene (PVT) and polystyrene (PS) are the most prominent. While the base does fluoresce in the presence of ionizing radiation, its low yield and negligible transparency to its own emission make the use of fluors necessary in the construction of a practical scintillator. Aside from the aromatic plastics, the most common base is polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), which carries two advantages over many other bases: high ultraviolet and visible light transparency and mechanical properties and higher durability with respect to brittleness. The lack of fluorescence associated with PMMA is often compensated through the addition of an aromatic co-solvent, usually naphthalene. A plastic scintillator based on PMMA in this way boasts transparency to its own radiation, helping to ensure uniform collection of light. Other common bases include polyvinyl xylene (PVX) polymethyl, 2,4-dimethyl, 2,4,5-trimethyl styrenes, polyvinyl diphenyl, polyvinyl naphthalene, polyvinyl tetrahydronaphthalene, and copolymers of these and other bases.Fluors.

Also known as luminophors, these compounds absorb the scintillation of the base and then emit at larger wavelength, effectively converting the ultraviolet radiation of the base into the more easily transferred visible light. Further increasing the attenuation length can be accomplished through the addition of a second fluor, referred to as a spectrum shifter or converter, often resulting in the emission of blue or green light.Gas.

Gaseous scintillators consist ofnitrogenand thenoble gaseshelium,argon,krypton, andxenon, with helium and xenon receiving the most attention. The scintillation process is due to the de-excitation of single atoms excited by the passage of an incoming particle. This de-excitation is very rapid (~1 ns), so the detector response is quite fast. Coating the walls of the container with awavelength shifteris generally necessary as those gases typically emit in theultravioletand PMTs respond better to the visible blue-green region. In nuclear physics, gaseous detectors have been used to detectfission fragmentsor heavycharged particles.Glass.

The most commonglassscintillators are cerium-activated lithium orboron silicates. Since both lithium and boron have largeneutron cross-sections, glass detectors are particularly well suited to the detection ofthermal (slow) neutrons. Lithium is more widely used than boron since it has a greater energy release on capturing a neutron and therefore greater light output. Glass scintillators are however sensitive to electrons and γ rays as well (pulse height discrimination can be used for particle identification). Being very robust, they are also well-suited to harsh environmental conditions. Their response time is ≈10 ns, their light output is however low, typically ≈30% of that of anthracene.Response to various radiations

the very high ionizing power of heavy ions inducesquenching effectswhich result in a reduced light output (e.g. for equal energies, aprotonwill produce 1/4 to 1/2 the light of anelectron, whilealphaswill produce only about 1/10 the light;

the highdE/dxalso results in a reduction of the fast component relative to the slow component, increasing detector dead-time;

strong non-linearities are observed in the detector response especially at lower energies.

The reduction in light output is stronger for organics than for inorganic crystals. Therefore, where needed, inorganic crystals, e.g. CsI(Tl), ZnS(Ag) (typically used in thin sheets as α-particle monitors), CaF2(Eu), should be preferred to organic materials. Typical applications are α-survey instruments,dosimetryinstruments, and heavy iondE/dxdetectors. Gaseous scintillators have also been used innuclear physicsexperiments.Electrons

The detection efficiency forelectronsis essentially 100% for most scintillators. But because electrons can make large anglescatterings(sometimesbackscatterings), they can exit the detector without depositing their full energy in it. The back-scattering is a rapidly increasing function of the atomic numberZof the scintillator material. Organic scintillators, having a lowerZthan inorganic crystals, are therefore best suited for the detection of low-energy (< 10 MeV)beta particles. The situation is different for high energy electrons: since they mostly lose their energy bybremsstrahlungat the higher energies, a higher-Zmaterial is better suited for the detection of the bremsstrahlung photon and the production of theelectromagnetic showerwhich it can induce.Gamma rays

High-Zmaterials, e.g. inorganic crystals, are best suited for the detection ofgamma rays. The three basic ways that a gamma ray interacts with matter are: thephotoelectric effect,Compton scattering, andpair production. The photon is completely absorbed in photoelectric effect and pair production, while only partial energy is deposited in any given Compton scattering. Thecross sectionfor the photoelectric process is proportional toZ5, that for pair production proportional toZ2, whereas Compton scattering goes roughly asZ. A high-Zmaterial therefore favors the former two processes, enabling the detection of the full energy of the gamma ray.Neutrons

Since theneutronis not charged it does not interact via theCoulomb forceand therefore does not ionize the scintillation material. It must first transfer some or all of its energy via the strong force to a chargedatomic nucleus. The positively charged nucleus then producesionization.Fast neutrons(generally >0.5 MeV) primarily rely on therecoilprotonin (n,p) reactions; materials rich inhydrogen, e.g. plastic scintillators, are therefore best suited for their detection.Slow neutronsrely onnuclear reactionssuch as the (n,γ) or (n,α) reactions, to produce ionization. Theirmean free pathis therefore quite large unless the scintillator material contains nuclides having a highcross sectionfor these nuclear reactions such as6Li or10B. Materials such as LiI(Eu) orglasssilicatesare therefore particularly well-suited for the detection of slow (thermal) neutrons.